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Sicily – Giuseppe "Pippo" Calo becomes head of the Porta Nuova, Palermo Clan.
Sicilian mafioso and Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio tried for his role in a mafia war, sparked by the murder of former boss Michele Navarra on Leggio's orders. Leggio is acquitted, probably due to witness intimidation.
February 5 – , a lieutenant in the DiGregorio faction of the Bonanno crime family, is killed.[1] He is the last victim of the "Bananas War" of the 1960s.
December 10 – Michele Cavataio and three of his men are killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi. Cavataio was able to shoot and kill Calogero Bagarella and wounding one of Di Cristina’s men before Provenzano killed him. Provenzano saved the situation with his submachine gun and earned himself a reputation as a Mafia killer with the attack. The Viale Lazio massacre marked the end of a ‘pax mafiosa’ that had reigned since the Ciaculli massacre until the end of the Trial of the 114.
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